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Title: The history of the castle, town and forest of Knaresbrough, with Harrogate, and it's medicinal springs
Year: 1809 (1800s)
Authors: Hargrove, Ely, 1741-1818
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Publisher: Knaresbrough Printed by Hargrove
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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From eve-
ry appearance, it may be concluded, that this castle
had all the advantages of strength and situation, that
could be desired, before the invention of artillery,*
and, even after this period, was found to be a place
not easily reduced: this is evinced by the great num-
ber of cannon-shot of various sizes that have been, and
are yet frequently found on different sides of it. Pla-
ced on an eminence, projecting into the river, and,
from its towers commanding all the avenues into the
town; nor could any one pass over either of the brid-
ges unseen by the garrison. Such was the castle of
Knaresbrough, which Leland truly says, " Standeth
" magnificently and strongly on a rock, having a deep
" ditch hewn out of the rock, where it was not defend-
" ed with the river Nidd;" and where he numbered
eleven or twelve towers.

*Captain Ross, of the artillery, amusing himself with viewing these
ruins, in the summer of 1781, declared, that supposing the eastle at that
time well fortified, he could, with the greatest safety, erect a battery
within 300 yards of the same.
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Ruins of the Kings Tower
In the Caftle of Knaresbrough.

KNARESBROUGH. IX

" What does not fade ? The tower that long had stood,
" The crush of thunder, and the warring winds.
" Shook by the slow, but sure destroyer—Time,
" Now hangs in doubtful ruins o'er its base:
"And flinty pyramids, and walls of brass
" Descend: The Babylonian spires are sunk;
" Achaia, Rome, and Egypt moulder down.——
" Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones,
" And tottring empires rush by their own weight.
" This huge rotundity we tread grows old;
"And, all those worlds that roll around the sun:
" The sun himself shall die; and ancient night
" Again involve the desolate abyss.

Armstrong

FROM viewing these mouldering remains of pride
and dominion, the eye is relieved, and the mind
cheered, by the romantic beauties of the adjacent
vale,-—a delicious composition of ENCLOSURES,
WOODS, and ROCKS, at the bottom of which, atine RI-
VER takes its bending course, shaded in many places
with hanging wood. On one side, the houses and trees
ranged along the edge of the precipice, with part of
the town, the CHURCH, the BRIDGE, and COGHILL-
HALL: On the other side, Belmont, with its wood and
enclosures, the more elevated situation of BILTON-
HALL, with a distant view of Brimham-rocks, com-
plete this beautiful scene.


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